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Sleeping Ariadne, the Glossary

The Sleeping Ariadne, housed in the Vatican Museums in Vatican City, is a Roman Hadrianic copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of the Pergamene school of the 2nd century BC, and is one of the most renowned sculptures of Antiquity.^[1]

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Antiquities acquired by Napoleon
Ariadne
Hellenistic-style Roman sculptures
Sculptures in the Vatican Museums
Tourist attractions in Vatican City

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century.

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Apollo Belvedere

The Apollo Belvedere (also called the Belvedere Apollo, Apollo of the Belvedere, or Pythian Apollo) is a celebrated marble sculpture from classical antiquity. Sleeping Ariadne and Apollo Belvedere are Antiquities acquired by Napoleon and sculptures in the Vatican Museums.

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Apostolic Palace

The Apostolic Palace (Palatium Apostolicum; Palazzo Apostolico) is the official residence of the Pope, the head of the Catholic Church, located in Vatican City.

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Ariadne

In Greek mythology, Ariadne (Ἀριάδνη; Ariadne) was a Cretan princess, the daughter of King Minos of Crete.

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Asp (snake)

"Asp" is the modern anglicisation of the word "aspis", which in antiquity referred to any one of several venomous snake species found in the Nile region.

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Baldassare Castiglione

Baldassare Castiglione, Count of Casatico (6 December 1478 – 2 February 1529),Dates of birth and death, and cause of the latter, from, Italica, Rai International online.

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Barberini Faun

The life-size ancient but much restored marble statue known as the Barberini Faun, Fauno Barberini or Drunken Satyr is now in the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany.

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Belvedere (structure)

A belvedere or belvidere (from Italian for "beautiful view") is an architectural structure sited to take advantage of a fine or scenic view.

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Brunilde Ridgway

Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway (born 1929, Chieti) is an Italian archaeologist and specialist in ancient Greek sculpture.

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Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus (84 – 54 BC), known as Catullus, was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic.

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Catullus 64

Catullus 64 is an epyllion or "little epic" poem written by Latin poet Catullus. Sleeping Ariadne and Catullus 64 are Ariadne.

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Chiton (garment)

A chiton (chitṓn) is a form of tunic that fastens at the shoulder, worn by men and women of ancient Greece and Rome.

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Cleopatra

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Κλεοπάτρα Θεά ΦιλοπάτωρThe name Cleopatra is pronounced, or sometimes in British English, see, the same as in American English.. Her name was pronounced in the Greek dialect of Egypt (see Koine Greek phonology);Also "Thea Neotera", lit.

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Cortile del Belvedere

The Cortile del Belvedere (Belvedere Courtyard or Belvedere Court) was a major architectural work of the High Renaissance at the Vatican Palace in Rome.

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Daniele da Volterra

Daniele Ricciarelli (15094 April 1566), better known as Daniele da Volterra, was a Mannerist Italian painter and sculptor.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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Ekphrasis

The word ekphrasis, or ecphrasis, comes from the Greek for the written description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical or literary exercise, often used in the adjectival form ekphrastic.

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Endymion (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Endymion (Ἐνδυμίων, gen.: Ἐνδυμίωνος) was variously a handsome Aeolian shepherd, hunter, or king who was said to rule and live at Olympia in Elis.

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Engraved gem

An engraved gem, frequently referred to as an intaglio, is a small and usually semi-precious gemstone that has been carved, in the Western tradition normally with images or inscriptions only on one face.

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Ennio Quirino Visconti

Ennio Quirino Visconti (November 1, 1751 – February 7, 1818) was a Roman politician, antiquarian, and art historian, papal Prefect of Antiquities, and the leading expert of his day in the field of ancient Roman sculpture.

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Epigonus

Epigonus (Ἐπίγονος) of Pergamum was the chief among the court sculptors to the Attalid dynasty at Pergamum in the late third century BCE.

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Epigram

An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or satirical statement.

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Francesco Primaticcio

Francesco Primaticcio (April 30, 1504 – 1570) was an Italian Mannerist painter, architect and sculptor who spent most of his career in France.

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Francis I of France

Francis I (er|; Françoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547.

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Francisco de Holanda

Francisco de Holanda (c. 1517 – 19 June 1585) was a Portuguese artist, architect, and art essayist.

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French Academy in Rome

The French Academy in Rome (Académie de France à Rome) is an academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio (Pincian Hill) in Rome, Italy.

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Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari (also,; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect, who is best known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of all art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, although he is now regarded as including many factual errors, especially when covering artists from before he was born.

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Giovanni Antonio Campani

Giovanni Antonio Campani called Campanus (27 February? 1429 – 15 July 1477), a protégé of Cardinal Bessarion, was a Neapolitan-born humanist at the court of Pope Pius II, whose funeral oration he wrote, followed by a biography, flattering but filled with personal reminiscence, written ca 1470-77.

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Grotto

A grotto is a natural or artificial cave used by humans in both modern times and antiquity, and historically or prehistorically.

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Hadrian

Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138.

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Hellenistic sculpture

Hellenistic sculpture represents one of the most important expressions of Hellenistic culture, and the final stage in the evolution of Ancient Greek sculpture.

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High Renaissance

In art history, the High Renaissance was a short period of the most exceptional artistic production in the Italian states, particularly Rome, capital of the Papal States, and in Florence, during the Italian Renaissance.

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James Bowdoin

James Bowdoin II (August 7, 1726 – November 6, 1790) was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution and the following decade.

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Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (9 December 17178 June 1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist.

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John Cheere

John Cheere (1709–1787) was an English sculptor, born in London.

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Julius Pomponius Laetus

Julius Pomponius Laetus (1428 – 9 June 1498), also known as Giulio Pomponio Leto, was an Italian humanist.

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Laocoön and His Sons

The statue of Laocoön and His Sons, also called the Laocoön Group (Gruppo del Laocoonte), has been one of the most famous ancient sculptures since it was excavated in Rome in 1506 and put on public display in the Vatican Museums, where it remains today. Sleeping Ariadne and Laocoön and His Sons are Antiquities acquired by Napoleon, Hellenistic-style Roman sculptures and sculptures in the Vatican Museums.

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Locus amoenus

Locus amoenus (Latin for "pleasant place") is a literary topos involving an idealized place of safety or comfort.

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Louis XIV

LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world.

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Mannerism

Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it.

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.

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Monticello

Monticello was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States, who began designing Monticello after inheriting land from his father at age 14.

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Museo del Prado

The Museo del Prado, officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin (June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome.

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Nymph

A nymph (νύμφη|nýmphē;; sometimes spelled nymphe) is a minor female nature deity in ancient Greek folklore.

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Palace of Fontainebleau

Palace of Fontainebleau (Château de Fontainebleau), located southeast of the center of Paris, in the commune of Fontainebleau, is one of the largest French royal châteaux.

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Pierre Julien

Pierre Julien (20 June 1731 – 17 December 1804) was a French sculptor who worked in a full range of rococo and neoclassical styles.

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Pope Julius II

Pope Julius II (Iulius II; Giulio II; born Giuliano della Rovere; 5 December 144321 February 1513) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1503 to his death, in February 1513.

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Pope Leo X

Pope Leo X (Leone X; born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 11 December 14751 December 1521) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death, in December 1521.

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Pottery of ancient Greece

Pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded in the Corpus vasorum antiquorum), it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of Greek society.

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Prosopopoeia

A prosopopoeia (προσωποποιία) is a rhetorical device in which a speaker or writer communicates to the audience by speaking as another person or object.

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Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island.

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Renaissance humanism

Renaissance humanism was a worldview centered on the nature and importance of humanity that emerged from the study of Classical antiquity.

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Sagrestia Nuova

The Sagrestia Nuova, also known as the New Sacristy and the Medici Chapel, is a mausoleum that stands as a testament to the grandeur and artistic vision of the Medici family.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.

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Sarcophagus

A sarcophagus (sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a coffin, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried.

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Stourhead

Stourhead is a 1,072-hectare (2,650-acre) estate at the source of the River Stour in the southwest of the English county of Wiltshire, extending into Somerset.

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T. B. L. Webster

Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster (3 July 1905 – 31 May 1974) was a British archaeologist and Classicist, known for his studies of Greek comedy.

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Theseus

Theseus (Θησεύς) was a divine hero and the founder of Athens from Greek mythology.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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Titanomachy

In Greek mythology, the Titanomachy (Τιτανομαχία||Titan-battle, Latin: Titanomachia) was a ten-year series of battles fought in Ancient Thessaly, consisting of most of the Titans (the older generation of gods, based on Mount Othrys) fighting against the Olympians (the younger generations, who would come to reign on Mount Olympus) and their allies.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Ariadne

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Antiquities acquired by Napoleon

Ariadne

Hellenistic-style Roman sculptures

Sculptures in the Vatican Museums

Tourist attractions in Vatican City

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